Historical Hockey Stories
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Our collections and research activity means we are constantly uncovering fascinating stories from across hockey’s rich British and international history. Explore them below.
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Wheelchair hockey and the Paralympic movement
A still from the BBC drama, The Best of Men (2011). Credit: BBC. The earliest recorded...
Puritans Hockey Club
Puritans Hockey Club was formed in 1953 from members of the returned armed forces. Its founders...
Flora and Former: Uncovering the International Hockey Ancestry of Team GB’s Flora Peel
Distant relatives and hockey internationals Flora Peel and Frederick Bryan Peel. Credits: Flora...
Who was Paul Léautey, enigmatic founding President of the FIH?
The Hockey Museum is supporting the International Hockey Federation – or Fédération Internationale...
Olympic Contrasts 68 Years Apart: Travelling to the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956
Paris is one of the nearest overseas Olympic host cities for us here in Great Britain (GB), but 68...
From long skirts to gymslips via Renaissance Italy
In the last decade of the 19th century hockey for women was described as, “being recognized as a...
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